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I Lampsi (1991)

I Lampsi poster
Original title
Η Λάμψη
Directed by
Níkos Fóskolos
Genre
soap opera, drama fiction
Country
Greece
Length
14 seasons, 1734 episodes
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

It is a Greek daily soap opera about the lives and relationships of a group of characters over many years. The story follows their personal dramas, secrets, and entanglements across hundreds of episodes.

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What happens

Lampsi (Greek: Η Λάμψη, English: The Shine) was the longest running series in Greek television, among the most famous in Greece and Bulgaria. It was aired for more than 14 years by the Greek television station ANT1 nearly every day. Bulgarian television network Nova Television aired "Lampsi", dubbed in Bulgarian from 2000 to 2010. It began broadcasting on 16 September 1991 and the last episode was released on 29 July 2005. In total 3,457 episodes were broadcast in 14 years. A total of 150,000 dialogues pages were written for 190 stories, involving 1,500 actors, seven directors and countless technicians. The script was written by Nikos Foskolos and on the filming of the episodes directors were Nikos Foskolos, Spyros Foskolos and five other directors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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